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DBMS > BigObject vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Access vs. openGauss vs. SQLite

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score104.92
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.gbase.cnwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessdocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.MicrosoftHuawei and openGauss communityDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20152004199220192000
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20193.0, March 20223.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen SourceOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++C, C++, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinuxserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardANSI SQL 2011yes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC#C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
C
C++
Java
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesno
Triggersnoyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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